Obama has largely been on the defensive during his spring string of reasoned, low-key “Main Street” speeches in Middle America, battling critics of his stimulus and health care efforts.Some powerful words about the Republican mindset and their raft of "solutions". He's right. Everywhere you turn you hear Republicans talking about how we need to make the deficit worse with more tax cuts and that government can't help, ever.
But on Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon University, Obama went on the summer offensive, accusing Republicans of sucking up to corporations, hewing to a bankrupt economic ideology and peddling tried-and-failed tax breaks for the rich.
“[A] good deal of the other party’s opposition to our agenda has also been rooted in their sincere and fundamental belief about government,” Obama said. “It’s a belief that government has little or no role to play in helping this nation meet our collective challenges. It’s an agenda that basically offers two answers to every problem we face: more tax breaks for the wealthy and fewer rules for corporations.”
Obama, who plans to stay in Pittsburgh for only a couple of hours before flying back to the nation's capital, said most Republicans “have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers.”
He added: “As November approaches, leaders in the other party will campaign furiously on the same economic argument they’ve been making for decades. Fortunately, we don’t have to look back too many years to see how it turns out. … They gave tax cuts that weren’t paid for to millionaires who didn’t need them. They gutted regulations, and put industry insiders in charge of industry oversight. ... And despite all their current moralizing about the need to curb spending, this is the same crowd who took the record $237 billion surplus that President Clinton left them and turned it into a record $1.3 trillion deficit.”
Good to see the old Obama back. We've missed you.
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I don't know where to start on this EPIC FAIL of your own.
1) Why not include the article's next two paragraphs?
"House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a statement, "The President gives a good speech, but good speeches can’t improve failing policies. Out-of-control Washington spending has created a massive debt, private sector business people — small and large — are preparing for additional tax increases, and the government keeps on growing.
“All of these factors are suffocating long-term economic growth, and instead of fixing these problems, the Obama administration keeps fueling them in tandem with the Congress. To put America back on the road to long-term growth and prosperity, it’s going to take two important commitments: one to cut government spending and another to grow the private sector,” Cantor said."
Or are you afraid of better, more intelligent opposing viewpoints still?
2) Boy the Obama administration has done a really good job on fixing the economy, unemployment rate, and this oil spill in the gulf, huh? As you would say "Just because you were mad at the Republicans in 2006 and 2008 doesn't magically make the Democrats competent now."
3) You neglected to mention the real story in Pittsburgh! Joe Sestak and Mark Critz both blew the President off because he's dead weight around the necks of their election campaigns. Obama is increasingly irrevelant and it's only a matter of time before the Democrats ask him to go for good...
Maybe you would have mentioned all these if you weren't sucking Obama off all the time with your hack blog! All I can say is you get shut down on your own blog several times a day by myself and others like Waffles, and all I have to say to that is:
EPIC FAIL!
Blogging isn't so fun, is it? Maybe you should give it up. You're still not very good at it...
This is a President who never stopped campaign mode. He's constantly out on the road campaigning for one cause or another. He fooled a lot of people in 2008, they are slowly waking up to see what this President is really about.
You have 2 instances that have come up where the WH may have acted illegally.
Great article about recent stumbles
Do what? Sounds like more shouting from the sidelines to me. I read this blog at least once a day and enjoy it very much. And what national problem has Eric "the Unread" Cantor EVER solved in his miserable life?
On the flip side, what has Obama done?
He passed a travesty of a health care bill that will assure you lose your insurance in five years and double your health care costs.
He made us a laughingstock as we reach out to Islamic regimes who continue to build nuclear technology and plot to kill our people.
He added $2 trillion to the national debt in 18 months with trillions more to come.
He oversaw the largest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.
He's done. Period.
1) I couldn't afford health care to begin with, thanks to your fake friends the corporate overlords who have constantly raised the rates.
2) We were already a laughing stock of democracy, due to the international terrorism of House Cheney
3)The greasing of New Orleans was due to, again, the gutting of regulations from the previous administrations.
I wouldn't want that guy's job, especially because in addition to a profound mess, Barry has to deal with blowhards like you waiting for a old white man with a huge sense of entitlement, in a suit that you could never afford, come slap you around and give you orders.
When you have a solution, just one solution to any of this, please post again. Until then, you are just another howler monkey throwing shit. Save it for Power Line.
1) I couldn't afford health care to begin with, thanks to your fake friends the corporate overlords who have constantly raised the rates.
Really? Cause McDonald's has decent enough benefits, so where must you work?
Liberal Answer: When all else fails...Blame Bush/Cheney
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